Tag: Microsoft Windows

  • Mac OS X Lion (Look Ma, No DVD)

    I updated to OS X Lion a couple of days ago, and for the most part it was a smooth transition. This is the first upgrade where Apple is using their App Store concept to distribute the OS, so it was a bit scary to hit “Purchase” and watch nothing happen for half an hour…

  • Problems with connecting at a hotel …

    When traveling and trying to use the hard wire at a hotel, you may find that the provided Ethernet cable won’t work. This is because hotels typically have a very outdated infrastructure and are still running at 10Mbps. Most new computers are set with network speed set to auto detect, but this relies on the…

  • Setting Up Time Zone for Working Remotely

    I’ve been working with the VA on a large project, where I was recently issued a laptop. Due to security concerns, they only allow VA government furnished equipment to connect to their network. It’s the first time in a long while where I’ve had a setup where I didn’t have an adminstrative account, and some…

  • How to Downgrade Your iPhone (or iPod) Operating System

    On the first day of 360iDev, I was in a session to learn about programming an iPhone, and somebody mentioned that a friend of theirs had updated their iPod firmware, and couldn’t figure out how to reset it back to the prior version. Since I had recently done this, I thought I could write this…

  • Keeping Entourage 2008 up to date without Office 2008

    I recently was seeing a few weird problems with Entourage and synching, so I decided to check and see if it was up to date. I have a copy of Entourage 2008 that I got from an Exchange hosting service that I use for email with one of my partner companies. Looking at the Entourage/About…

  • Moving my VolunteerCake to my Mac …

    I have been running my development for VolunteerCake with a database on my Windows box which sits in my office with my Mac. I went to meet some people at a coffee shop, and realized that I couldn’t show them the app running on my MacBook because I was no longer on the same subnet…